Sensor Or Transducer Patents (Class 702/104)
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Patent number: 10691965Abstract: A fingerprint recognition method includes: acquiring a prestored number of historical defect pixels after a fingerprint recognition sensor captures a first fingerprint image; prohibiting performing matching recognition on the first fingerprint image upon the number of the historical defect pixels being greater than or equal to a first preset number threshold; detecting a number of damaged capturing modules of the fingerprint recognition sensor to obtain a number of current defect pixels; and updating the number of the historical defect pixels by using the number of the current defect pixels, the updated number of the historical defect pixels being used for determining whether to perform matching recognition on a fingerprint image captured next time.Type: GrantFiled: December 26, 2018Date of Patent: June 23, 2020Assignee: BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE CO., LTD.Inventor: Xuebin Huang
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Patent number: 10670624Abstract: An electronic device configured for real-time calibration of an on-board accelerometer. A plurality of acceleration measurements are collected from the accelerometer to form a data set. An accelerometer error correction model is maintained that includes bias error calibration parameters, sensitivity calibration parameters, and cross-axis calibration parameters that each specify respective weights for each of bias error, sensitivity error, and cross-axis error. Calibration values are determined for one or more of the bias error calibration parameters, the sensitivity calibration parameters, and the cross-axis error calibration parameters for the data set of acceleration measurements using the accelerometer error correction model. A true acceleration vector may be determined that corresponds to a subsequently received acceleration measurement using the determined calibration values.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 2019Date of Patent: June 2, 2020Assignee: CLOUDNAV INC.Inventors: Erik Anderson, Nathan Royer
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Patent number: 10670392Abstract: A vehicle wheel alignment system has a plurality of cameras, each camera for viewing a respective target disposed at a respective wheel of the vehicle and capturing image data of the target as the wheel and target are continuously rotated a number of degrees of rotation without a pause. The image data is used to calculate a minimum number of poses of the target of at least one pose for every five degrees of rotation as the wheel and target are continuously rotated the number of degrees of rotation without a pause. At least one of the cameras comprises a data processor for performing the steps of preprocessing the image data, and calculating an alignment parameter for the vehicle based on the preprocessed image data.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2019Date of Patent: June 2, 2020Assignee: SNAP-ON INCORPORATEDInventors: Steven W. Rogers, David A. Jackson, Bradley Lewis, Adam C. Brown, Robert J. D'Agostino, Eric R. Sellers
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Patent number: 10660554Abstract: Methods, systems and devices for providing improved calibration accuracy of continuous and/or in vivo analyte monitoring systems based at least in part on insulin delivery information are provided. Many of the embodiments disclosed herein can determine appropriate conditions for performing a calibration of the analyte sensor in view of the scheduled delivery of insulin or administered insulin amount. One or more other parameters or conditions can also be incorporated to improve calibration accuracy including, for example, the physiological model associated with a patient, meal information, exercise information, activity information, disease information, historical physiological condition information, as well as other types of information. Furthermore, according to some embodiments, calibration of the analyte sensor can be delayed or not performed at all, if appropriate conditions are not met.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2018Date of Patent: May 26, 2020Assignee: ABBOTT DIABETES CARE INC.Inventors: Gary Alan Hayter, Erwin Satrya Budiman
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Patent number: 10665104Abstract: Example systems and methods for detecting an animal proximate a vehicle are described. In one implementation, a wearable device carried by an animal is activated when the wearable device is within a predetermined distance of a vehicle. The vehicle receives a signal from the wearable device and determines an approximate distance between the wearable device and the vehicle. An alert is generated to warn a driver that an animal is near the vehicle. The alert has an intensity level that corresponds to the approximate distance between the wearable device and the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2015Date of Patent: May 26, 2020Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLCInventors: Nithika Sivashankar, Scott Vincent Myers, Brielle Reiff, Madeline Jane Schrier
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Patent number: 10653948Abstract: Systems, methods and articles of manufacture relating to calibration of a magnetometer in an electronic device suitable for use in an augmented reality (AR) and/or virtual reality (VR) video game. An electronic video game device includes a magnetometer. A prompt is displayed in the video game requesting a user-performed first gameplay motion using the electronic video game device where the first gameplay motion is a pre-defined motion used for calibrating the magnetometer. A first plurality of measurements is received from the magnetometer relating to a magnetic field in a physical gameplay environment, where the first plurality of measurements is taken by the magnetometer during the first gameplay motion. The first plurality of measurements is analyzed to detect a magnetic bias in the magnetometer. The magnetometer is calibrated to offset the magnetic bias.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2017Date of Patent: May 19, 2020Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.Inventors: Michael P. Goslin, Matthew W. Ryan, Elliott H. Baumbach, John Crocker, Lee Chidgey, Timothy M. Panec
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Patent number: 10649015Abstract: A method may include applying an excitation signal to a capacitor of the capacitive sensor which causes generation of a modulated signal from an input signal indicative of a variance in a capacitance of the capacitor, detecting the modulated signal with a detector to generate a detected modulated signal that has a phase shift relative to the excitation signal, demodulating the detected modulated signal into an in-phase component and a quadrature component using a reference signal, nullifying the quadrature component by setting a phase of the reference signal relative to the excitation signal to compensate for the phase shift, and outputting the in-phase component as an unmodulated output signal representative of the capacitance.Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 2018Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: Cirrus Logic, Inc.Inventors: Vikrant Arumugam, Amar Vellanki, Vamsikrishna Parupalli, Zhong You, Johann G. Gaboriau, John L. Melanson
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Patent number: 10634567Abstract: The present disclosure illustrates a calibration method and circuit for a pressure sensing device. The calibration method, via at least one passive component (e.g., the default capacitor) installed in the pressure sensing device, obtains a calibration gain factor of at least one converter also installed in the pressure sensing device, and when the pressure sensing device is in a regular operating mode, the calibration gain factor can be used to calibrate the output of the converter, so that a sensing signal inputted into the pressure sensing device can be correctly converted to a relevant pressure value.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2017Date of Patent: April 28, 2020Assignee: PIXART IMAGING INC.Inventor: Sung-Han Wu
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Patent number: 10560691Abstract: A system including a processing device and an exchangeable camera connected thereto for detecting a machine-readable security feature of a valuable document. The system is calibrated by means of processing device correction data, which relate to characteristics of the processing device, and camera calibration data, which relate to the characteristics of the processing device and of the camera connected thereto. The camera includes a memory configured to store the processing device correction data and the camera calibration data relating to the System in which the calibration is carried out, and the processing device includes a memory configured to store the processing device correction data and the camera calibration data relating to the system in which operation for detecting a machine-readable security feature of the valuable document is carried out.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2018Date of Patent: February 11, 2020Assignee: CI Tech Sensors, AGInventors: Christoph Reinhard, Mathias Zenger
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Patent number: 10545221Abstract: An automotive detection system includes a signal transmitter and a receiver, which generates receive signals indicative of reflected signals. A processor (i) receives the receive signals, (ii) processes the receive signals to generate detections of one or more objects in the region, each of the detections being associated with a position in a two-dimensional orthogonal coordinate system in a plane in which the sensor is moving, (iii) detects a pattern of detections in the two-dimensional orthogonal coordinate system by determining a quantity of detections having coordinates in a rectangular region within the two-dimensional orthogonal coordinate system, (iv) determines an angle of an axis of the rectangular region with respect to a reference direction in the two-dimensional orthogonal coordinate system, and (v) determines an angle of misalignment of the sensor from the angle of the axis of the rectangular region with respect to the reference direction.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2017Date of Patent: January 28, 2020Assignee: Veoneer, Inc.Inventors: Matthew Fetterman, Mikhail Rubnich
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Distance sensor, and calibration method performed by device and system including the distance sensor
Patent number: 10539664Abstract: A calibration method performed by a distance sensor emitting at least one beam is provided. The calibration method includes obtaining information regarding one surface of an object; obtaining distance sensor data by emitting a plurality of beams to the one surface of the object; and performing calibration on the plurality of beams emitted by the distance sensor, based on the information about the one surface of the object and the distance sensor data.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2017Date of Patent: January 21, 2020Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: A-ron Baik, Jung-gap Kuk, Chang-soo Park, Seung-beom Han, Mid-eum Choi, Jung-un Lee -
Patent number: 10521051Abstract: An input device (100) is configured to detect force being applied to an input region (120) of the device (100) by an input object (140), in addition to the position of the input object (140) using touch sensing methods. The input device (100) applies a position-based jitter force filter to the force sensor data to compensate for a non-uniform response across the input device (100), as well as the movement of an input object (140).Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2016Date of Patent: December 31, 2019Assignee: SYNAPTICS INCORPORATEDInventors: Ying Wang, Earl Peng, Jingwei Tan
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Patent number: 10509052Abstract: A test wafer having two spaced-apart accelerometers mounted thereon is disclosed. The accelerometers may be positioned at locations located along a common axis passing through the center of gravity of the test wafer. The test wafer may include a controller that may be used to transmit acceleration data collected by the accelerometers to another device. In some implementations, a semiconductor processing tool is provided that includes a test wafer receptacle for storing a test wafer that remains with the semiconductor processing tool and that may be retrieved by a wafer handling robot for performing a test cycle during periods when the wafer handling robot is not performing substrate transport operations.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2017Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: Lam Research CorporationInventors: Peter S. Thaulad, Arulselvam Simon Jeyapalan, Richard M. Blank, Tyson Lee Ringold, Victor Eduardo Espinosa, III
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Patent number: 10508907Abstract: A vehicle wheel alignment system has a plurality of cameras, each camera for viewing a respective target disposed at a respective wheel of the vehicle and capturing image data of the target as the wheel and target are continuously rotated a number of degrees of rotation without a pause. The image data is used to calculate a minimum number of poses of the target of at least one pose for every five degrees of rotation as the wheel and target are continuously rotated the number of degrees of rotation without a pause. At least one of the cameras comprises a data processor for performing the steps of preprocessing the image data, and calculating an alignment parameter for the vehicle based on the preprocessed image data.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2019Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: SNAP-ON INCORPORATEDInventors: Steven W. Rogers, David A. Jackson, Bradley Lewis, Adam C. Brown, Robert J. D'Agostino, Eric R. Sellers
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Patent number: 10502656Abstract: A servo-controlled vehicle-supporting apparatus maintaining an unrestrained and freely self-propelled vehicle longitudinally stationary thereon. When employed inside a wind tunnel, the power transferred through groundward contact with the vehicle wheels can be directly measured, thereby indicating the propulsive power required to overcome total drag forces on a vehicle as if driving on a roadway.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2016Date of Patent: December 10, 2019Inventor: Garth L Magee
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Patent number: 10490160Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with a display mounted in a housing. An ambient light sensor may measure the color of ambient light through an ambient light sensor window in the display. The ambient light sensor may have an array of light detectors on a semiconductor die. The light detectors may include color matching function light detectors that have spectral sensitivity profiles that match standard observer color matching functions and may include spectral sensing light detectors. The spectral sensing light detectors may have narrower full width at half maximum bandwidths than the color matching function light detectors and may be used with the color matching function light detectors to measure an ambient light spectrum. The color matching function light detectors may be used to measure the color of ambient light.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2017Date of Patent: November 26, 2019Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Zhang Jia, Jiaying Wu, Farnaz Agahian
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Patent number: 10488447Abstract: A method performs state estimation of a distribution network based on real time measurement values. The method includes calculating load scaling factors at least for non-redundantly measurable parts of the distribution network, determining whether each of the load scaling factors related to a non-redundantly measurable part of the distribution network is within a given range (RLSF), and discarding the measurement values related to the corresponding scaling factor for all load scaling factors outside the given range (RLSF). The network state of the distribution network is then estimated based on the remaining measurement values.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2014Date of Patent: November 26, 2019Assignee: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventor: Izudin Dzafic
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Patent number: 10488431Abstract: An electronic device configured for real-time calibration of an on-board accelerometer. A plurality of acceleration measurements are collected from the accelerometer to form a data set. An accelerometer error correction model is maintained that includes bias error calibration parameters, sensitivity calibration parameters, and cross-axis calibration parameters that each specify respective weights for each of bias error, sensitivity error, and cross-axis error. Calibration values are determined for one or more of the bias error calibration parameters, the sensitivity calibration parameters, and the cross-axis error calibration parameters for the data set of acceleration measurements using the accelerometer error correction model. A true acceleration vector may be determined that corresponds to a subsequently received acceleration measurement using the determined calibration values.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2018Date of Patent: November 26, 2019Assignee: CloudNav Inc.Inventors: Erik Anderson, Nathan Royer
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Patent number: 10488843Abstract: A method for checking positioning accuracy of a CNC machine with a machine tool head and a machine table using an x, y, z coordinate system, the method comprising: a) arranging a plurality of vessels on the table, the vessels in fluid connection with each other to form a system of vessels, the vessels filled with a liquid, b) mounting a distance sensor to the tool head, c) positioning the tool head to a position above the surface of the liquid in one of the vessels, d) a determining the z coordinate for which the distance sensor touches the surface of the liquid, or, for a predetermined position of the tool head in z direction above the liquid, determining the distance between the distance sensor and the liquid; steps c) and d) are repeated for each vessel to determine a z coordinate of the surface of the liquid.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2015Date of Patent: November 26, 2019Assignee: FIDIA S.P.A.Inventors: Mario Vesco, Giuseppe Morfino
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Patent number: 10475253Abstract: A computer system having a display generation component, one or more input devices, one or more cameras, and one or more attitude sensors receives a request to display an augmented reality view of a physical environment in a first user interface region that includes a representation of a field of view of the one or more cameras. In response to receiving the request, in accordance with a determination that calibration criteria are not met, a calibration user interface object is displayed. In response to detecting a change in attitude of the one or more cameras in the physical environment, at least one display parameter of the calibration user interface object is adjusted in accordance with the detected change. In response to detecting that the calibration criteria are met, the calibration user interface object ceases to be displayed.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2018Date of Patent: November 12, 2019Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Giancarlo Yerkes, Stephen O. Lemay, Jeffrey M. Faulkner, Grant R. Paul, Lisa K. Forssell, Bradley W. Griffin
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Patent number: 10464181Abstract: A measurement device (MD) includes a processor to sample electrical signals of a circuit connected to a sensor, such as a current transformer, and to provide measurement data to a processing system (PS) based on the sampled electrical signals. An electrical circuit carrying AC electricity to and from an electrical shop tool (EST) can pass through the sensor. The measurement data can represent use or non-use of the EST. An EST, such as a vehicle lift or wheel balancer, can comprise an electrical motor connected to the electrical circuit. An EST, such as an air compressor, can comprise an electrical pump connected to the electrical circuit. The PS can determine an actionable condition based on a single measurement value or an aggregate of measurement values and determine a notification to send to a destination regarding the actionable condition. The destination can be a user account, a smartphone, or another destination.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2017Date of Patent: November 5, 2019Assignee: Snap-on IncorporatedInventors: Christopher L. Greenwald, Jeffrey P. Hastings
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Patent number: 10458372Abstract: A method and a device for the dynamic monitoring of an air charging system of an internal combustion engine, subsystems of the air charging system having a low-pass characteristic, and a characteristic state quantity that is to be measured being compared with a modeled, identical state quantity. The measured signal and the modeled signal are filtered using a high-pass filter or bandpass filter, and, given a change in the characteristic state quantity that is to be measured, higher-frequency signal portions are evaluated, which is advantageous with regard to the recognition of so-called slow response errors.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2016Date of Patent: October 29, 2019Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Andreas Michalske, Frank Mueller, Richard Holberg, Shuwen Ling
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Patent number: 10401177Abstract: The invention relates to a navigational aid method for an inertial navigation system including at least one inertial sensor (4) having a sensitive axis (X-X), each inertial sensor (4) comprising an ASG gyroscope (8) able to deliver an ASG signal representative of a rotation about the corresponding sensitive axis (X-X), and a MEMS gyroscope (10) able to deliver a MEMS signal representative of a rotation about the corresponding sensitive axis (X-X), the method including the steps of: between a first date and a subsequent third date, calculating a path from the MEMS signals; from the third date, calculating the path from the ASG signals; estimating a bias vector introduced by the MEMS gyroscopes (10), from the MEMS signals and ASG signals; at a fourth date subsequent to the third date, resetting the path.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2017Date of Patent: September 3, 2019Assignees: COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES, SAFRANInventors: Sophie Morales, Augustin Palacios Laloy, Jean-Michel Leger, Georges Remillieux, Marc Gramlich, Etienne Brunstein
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Patent number: 10394643Abstract: System and method for auto-calculating uncertainty of a measurement performed by a measurement device. The measurement device initiates a measurement or measurements. In response to the measurement initiation, a driver of the measurement device sends an error specification request to each of a plurality of hardware modules involved in the measurement. Each of the plurality of hardware modules determines the requested error specifications based on a current configuration of the respective hardware module. The measurement device then calculates an uncertainty associated with the measurement or measurements based on the error specifications.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 2017Date of Patent: August 27, 2019Assignee: National Instruments CorporationInventor: Robert W. Hamner
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Patent number: 10386460Abstract: A self-calibrating sensor system is provided and includes one or more sensors supportively disposed on or proximate to a wall defining one or more apertures and a processor. Each of the one or more sensors is configured to track individuals proximate to at least one of the one or more apertures. The processor is configured to determine one or more of a location and an orientation of each of the one or more sensors relative to the at least one of the one or more apertures from analyses of the tracking of the individuals.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2017Date of Patent: August 20, 2019Assignee: OTIS ELEVATOR COMPANYInventors: Alan Matthew Finn, Arthur Hsu
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Patent number: 10384608Abstract: A vehicle-mounted stereo camera device that achieves high-precision distance detection is provided. The provided vehicle-mounted stereo camera device includes a left camera and right camera disposed on a vehicle to cause a visual field of the left camera and a visual field of the right camera to overlap each other, a stereo processor that calculates a distance to a body outside the vehicle based on images captured by the left camera and right camera and on positions of the left camera and right camera on the vehicle, and sensors disposed near the left camera and right camera for detecting displacement amounts of the left camera and right camera. The stereo processor changes a cutout positions in the images captured by the left camera and right camera based on the displacement amounts.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2017Date of Patent: August 20, 2019Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shigenori Yatsuri, Norikazu Yamamoto, Mitsuru Kashihara, Yuichi Suzuki, Ken Ishida
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Patent number: 10383196Abstract: A control system for a facility can automatically control lighting conditions in an area of a facility to prevent the accidental turning off of lights in the area while machines or equipment are operating in the area. The control system can use information from a compressed air system that provides compressed air to the machines in the area to determine if the machines are presently being used in the area. If the machines are being used, the control system can control the lighting conditions in the area to provide a appropriate level of lighting. If the machines are not being used in the area, the control system can control the lighting conditions in the area based on one or more occupancy sensors used to determine if a person is located in the area.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2018Date of Patent: August 13, 2019Assignee: Synapse Wireless, Inc.Inventor: Daniel Josiah Barnes
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Patent number: 10371728Abstract: A method of sensing electrical power being provided to a structure using a sensing device, a calibration device, and one or more processing modules. The sensing device can include one or more magnetic field sensors. The sensing device can be attached to a panel of a circuit breaker box. The panel of the circuit breaker box can overlie at least a part of one or more main electrical power supply lines for an electrical power infrastructure of a structure. The calibration device can include a load unit. The calibration device can be electrically coupled to the electrical power infrastructure of the structure. The method can include automatically calibrating the sensing device by determining a first transfer function in a piecewise manner based on a plurality of ordinary power consumption changes in the structure.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2017Date of Patent: August 6, 2019Assignee: BELKIN INTERNATIONAL, INC.Inventors: Shwetak N. Patel, Sidhant Gupta, Matthew S. Reynolds
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Patent number: 10359297Abstract: A method and system to determine orientation of a device is disclosed. The device includes a plurality of sensors. A first signal indicative of an orientation of the device is generated using at least a first subset of sensors, with at least one sensor. A second signal indicative of the orientation of the device is generated using at least a second subset of sensors, with at least one sensor. The first signal and the second signal is compared to determine if indicated orientation is acceptable. If the orientation is not acceptable, one or more sensors are calibrated.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2015Date of Patent: July 23, 2019Assignee: INVENSENSE, INC.Inventor: William Kerry Keal
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Patent number: 10349584Abstract: A system and method for automatic plant monitoring. The method comprises: identifying at least one test input respective of a test area, wherein the test area includes at least one part of a plant; and generating a plant condition prediction based on the at least one test input and on a prediction model, wherein the prediction model is based on a training set including at least one training input and at least one training output, wherein each training output corresponds to a training input.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 2015Date of Patent: July 16, 2019Assignee: Prospera Technologies, Ltd.Inventors: Raviv Itzhaky, Daniel Koppel, Simeon Shpiz
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Patent number: 10352959Abstract: A method for estimating a path of a moving element or body using a sensor assembly includes: receiving acceleration values provided by an accelerometer; receiving angular velocity values provided by a gyrometer; processing the values provided for estimating at least one angular position value using the angular velocity values and at least two Cartesian position values defining a path of the moving element or body using acceleration values and the at least one previously estimated angular position value; estimating rotation parameters, by inverting a rotational realignment model of the estimated path subject to prior knowledge of the path; retroactively correcting the at least one estimated angular position value, by applying a rotation on this value using estimated rotation parameters, so as to provide at least one corrected angular position value.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2011Date of Patent: July 16, 2019Assignee: MOVEAInventors: Joe Youssef, Christelle Godin, Suzanne Lesecq
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Patent number: 10321855Abstract: Aspects of gait matching are described herein. In one embodiment, a method of gait matching includes identifying a gait cycle timing in a data sequence captured by an inertial sensor, splitting the data sequence into a gait cycle segment, resampling the gait cycle segment, and estimating a rotation matrix for the resampled gait cycle segment. The rotation matrix, in one embodiment, can be estimated by minimizing a root mean squared deviation between the resampled gait cycle segment and a reference gait cycle segment. The method further includes calculating an aligned gait cycle segment from the resampled gait cycle segment using the rotation matrix, and generating a similarity measure between the aligned gait cycle segment and the reference gait cycle segment.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2017Date of Patent: June 18, 2019Assignee: UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDAInventors: Sudeep Sarkar, Ravichandran Subramanian, Miguel A. Labrador
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Patent number: 10288487Abstract: A method is provided. The method comprises: transmitting a periodic chirp to at least two pixels of a MEMS sensor array; determining a resonant frequency of each MEMS resonant sensor receiving the periodic chirp; determining the change in resonant frequency of each MEMS resonant sensor receiving the periodic chirp; determining a power level incident upon each pixel receiving the periodic chirp. In one embodiment, the method further comprises calibrating the MEMS sensor array. In another embodiment, calibrating comprises generating a reference resonant frequency for each MEMS resonant sensor. In a further embodiment, determining the power level comprises determining a difference between the determined resonant frequency and the reference resonant frequency.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2017Date of Patent: May 14, 2019Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.Inventor: Steven Tin
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Patent number: 10290116Abstract: A method for analyzing a dynamic scene partitioned into cells which involves determining a probability of occupancy of a cell and a probability or probabilities of movement of the cell by solving the equation P(OV|ZC)=?A0?1V-1P(CA00?1VV?1Z)/?A00?1VV?1P(CA00?VV?1Z) comprising the determination of the speeds and positions of dummy particles in the grid depending on those determined at the (k?1)th iteration and the probability P(V|V?1); the determination of the particles located in each cell depending on the determined positions, and the solving of the equation, for a cell, is split into the solving of a static part corresponding to P(0=empty, V=0|ZC) and P(0=occupied, V=0|ZC) and the solving of a dynamic part corresponding to P(0=occ, V=vki,|ZC), i=32 1 to nk, in which nk is the number of particles determined in cell C for the kth iteration.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2015Date of Patent: May 14, 2019Assignees: Inria Institut National De Recherche En Informatique Et En Automatique, Centre National De La Recherche Scientifique, Commissariat A L'Energie Atomique Et Aux Energies AlternativesInventors: Christian Laugier, Amaury Negre, Mathias Perrollaz, Lukas Rummelhard
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Patent number: 10276015Abstract: A method for storing information corresponding to a baled crop during a baling process includes providing a harvesting machine including a control unit, a sensor, and a bale tag reader. The method also includes forming the baled crop with a bale tag by the harvesting machine, identifying the baled crop by the control unit with a bale identifier, and sensing a characteristic of the baled crop by the sensor. The method further includes detecting a bale tag identifier associated with the bale tag by the bale tag reader, communicating the characteristic and bale tag identifier to the control unit, corresponding the characteristic, bale tag identifier and bale identifier of the baled crop to one another, and storing the characteristic, bale tag identifier and bale identifier in an electronic storage unit that is in electrical communication with the control unit.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2016Date of Patent: April 30, 2019Assignee: DEERE & COMPANYInventors: Eric R. Lang, Daniel E. Derscheid, Valentin Gresch, Martin Kremmer
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Patent number: 10268788Abstract: A method includes building a driver model in frequency domain, extracting S (scattering) parameters, the S parameters to describe a real curve that represents a real signal channel between the driver model and a load circuit, and generating, based on the extracted S parameters, an approaching curve of the real curve, the approaching curve being expressed in an approaching equation.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2017Date of Patent: April 23, 2019Assignee: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD.Inventors: Hui-Yu Lee, Hao-Tien Kan
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Patent number: 10253626Abstract: Methods and systems for predicting properties of well bore treatment fluids are disclosed. An embodiment includes a method of predicting fluid properties comprising: determining an operational window for a well bore fluid system; collecting data at vertices of the operational window; and developing a model comprising predicted properties for a plurality of data points within the operational window, wherein developing the model uses Barycentric interpolation.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2017Date of Patent: April 9, 2019Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Lucas D. Albrighton, Herron J. Kennedy
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Patent number: 10254028Abstract: A cooling system has both pumped refrigerant economization and direct expansion cooling. When outside air temperature is low enough that pumped refrigerant economization can provide enough cooling to satisfy cooling demand, only pumped refrigerant economization cooling is used to provide cooling. When outside air temperature is low enough that pumped refrigerant economization can provide some but not all of the cooling needed to satisfy cooling demand, the pumped refrigerant economization is operated at one hundred percent capacity and the direct expansion cooling is operated at a capacity to provide any supplemental cooling that is needed. If the outside air temperature is high enough that pumped refrigerant economization cannot provide any cooling, then only direct expansion cooling is used to provide cooling.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2016Date of Patent: April 9, 2019Assignee: Vertiv CorporationInventors: Zhiyong Lin, Steven Madara, Benedict J. Dolcich, Stephen Sillato, Daniel J. Schutte
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Patent number: 10217435Abstract: Disclosed is a method of controlling an electronic device and an electronic device. The method may include: acquiring motion information of an electronic device; performing an inertial force correction for removing a part by an inertial force from the acquired motion information; and displaying a screen corresponding to the inertial force-corrected motion information.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2016Date of Patent: February 26, 2019Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Sang-Won Chae, Jung-Eun Lee, Hyoung-Il Kim
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Patent number: 10216290Abstract: A gyroscope apparatus for a device including an accelerometer and a magnetic component has a gravity vector generator connected to the accelerometer and receptive to acceleration readings therefrom. A magnetic component output generator is connected to the magnetic component and receptive to magnetic component readings. A sensor fusion engine is connected to the gravity vector generator and to the magnetic component output generator, with a gravity vector value and a magnetic field vector value at a first time instance being combined to represent a first orientation value. The gravity vector value and the magnetic field vector value at a second time instance are combined to represent a second orientation value. An orientation rate of change is derived from a difference between the first orientation value and the second orientation value.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 2017Date of Patent: February 26, 2019Inventors: Angelo Scandaliato, Nils Forsblom, Maximilian Metti
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Patent number: 10190881Abstract: Methods, systems and apparatuses for enhanced Microelectromechanical (MEMS)-based navigation in a mobile device are disclosed. In an embodiment, a method includes receiving navigation data from one or more navigation sensors on board the mobile device. The method may also include calculating, using a processing device, position, velocity, and attitude (PVA) values in response to the navigation data using an Inertial Navigation System (INS) mechanization. Additionally, the method may include calculating, using the processing device, Pedestrian Dead Reckoning (PDR) values in response to the navigation data. Also, the method may include determining, using the processing device, one or more navigation values in response to a combination of the PVA values calculated by the INS mechanization and the PDR values.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2016Date of Patent: January 29, 2019Assignee: Profound Positioning Inc.Inventors: Zhuang Yuan, Naser El-Sheimy
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Patent number: 10152794Abstract: A method, a medium (20) and a system (10) for calibrating a camera (32) of a vehicle (30). The calibration system (10) is remarkable in that it includes a calibration medium (20), including at least a first calibration reference (24) and a mirror (26), and a vehicle (30), including at least a second calibration reference (34). The method can be used to calibrate the camera (32) by determining the spatial compensation values between the camera (32) and the vehicle (30), without any need to align the vehicle (30) perfectly facing the calibration medium (20).Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2014Date of Patent: December 11, 2018Assignees: CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE FRANCE, CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE GMBHInventor: Lucien Garcia
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Patent number: 10145687Abstract: Raw dead reckoning data is obtained from an inertial measurement unit (IMU) worn by a user. Drift in the raw data is compensated for by detecting a gait of the user and phase of that gait, and constraining the position of the IMU to lie within corresponding bounds as the IMU moves. The bounds depend on the bodily geometry of the user and the detected gait phase. The raw orientation data of the IMU may be also corrected for drift in a similar way. Gait and gait phase may be detected by sensors in an energy harvester worn around the knee, for example. Drift in the IMU measurements can be compensated for without depending on a GPS signal or on the earth's magnetic field.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2016Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: Bionic Power Inc.Inventors: Daniel Loren Hepler, Clive Edward Mullins
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Patent number: 10136847Abstract: Methods, devices, and kits are provided for mitigating single point failure of at least one device in an analyte monitoring system.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2017Date of Patent: November 27, 2018Assignee: Abbott Diabetes Care Inc.Inventors: Gary Alan Hayter, Marc Barry Taub
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Patent number: 10132820Abstract: The present invention generally relates to the determination of an analyte concentration (quantitative determination) or whether an analyte threshold level has been passed (qualitative determination) in a biological sample through employment of a disposable analytical microprocessor device. The device can include a batch-specific, self-executable algorithm for the calculation of the analyte concentration.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2008Date of Patent: November 20, 2018Assignee: Lifeassays ABInventors: Dario Kriz, Kirstin Ann Kriz
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Patent number: 10066942Abstract: A sensor chip includes sensor pads, and the first set of differential detection signal pads are symmetrically arranged on both sides of a ground pad and are centered at the ground pad, the second set of differential detection signal pads are arranged on both sides thereof, and a power supply pad is arranged in one end of the two ends of the sensor pads. A processing circuit chip includes sensor connection pads including power supply connection pads, a ground connection pad, and two sets of differential detection signal connection pads, and the power supply connection pads connectable to the power supply pad of the sensor chip are arranged in two ends of the sensor connection pads.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2016Date of Patent: September 4, 2018Assignee: ALPS ELECTRIC CO., LTD.Inventor: Junichi Saito
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Patent number: 10069336Abstract: The invention relates to an inductive charging device having at least one inductive charging coil wound about a coil axis, and an electric or dielectric antenna, which is arranged at a location that is shifted parallel to the coil axis in relation to a location of a region of the charging coil, a location within the at least one charging coil, or a location between the charging coils. The electric vehicle and the charging station each have such an inductive charging device. With the method, one or two such inductive charging devices are used, wherein by means of the inductive charging coils, energy is transmitted, and by means of the antennas, communications data are transmitted.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2014Date of Patent: September 4, 2018Assignee: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: Andreas Fackelmeier, Fabian Kurz, Dominikus Joachim Müller, Reiner Müller, Robert Nagel, Florian Poprawa
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Patent number: 10067105Abstract: A method for operating a measuring site (1), wherein a measured variable is determined by a sensor (5) that can be calibrated and in which an exact as possible planning of activities, to which, for example, calibration or sensor replacement belong, is possible is obtained, in accordance with the method, in that the sensor (5) is calibrated at presettable calibration points in time, that at least one parameter in conjunction with calibration is stored as a part of reference data of the sensor (5) and that at least one aging-dependent variable of a sensor (8, 6) differing from the sensor (5) is estimated based on reference data of the sensor (5).Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2015Date of Patent: September 4, 2018Assignee: KROHNE Messtechnik GmbHInventors: Michael Deilmann, Christoph Schmits
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Patent number: 10054610Abstract: An electronic device configured for real-time calibration of an on-board accelerometer. A plurality of acceleration measurements are collected from the accelerometer to form a data set. An accelerometer error correction model is maintained that includes bias error calibration parameters, sensitivity calibration parameters, and cross-axis calibration parameters that each specify respective weights for each of bias error, sensitivity error, and cross-axis error. Calibration values are determined for one or more of the bias error calibration parameters, the sensitivity calibration parameters, and the cross-axis error calibration parameters for the data set of acceleration measurements using the accelerometer error correction model. A true acceleration vector may be determined that corresponds to a subsequently received acceleration measurement using the determined calibration values.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2018Date of Patent: August 21, 2018Assignee: CloudNav Inc.Inventors: Erik Anderson, Nathan Royer
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Patent number: 10055565Abstract: A wearable device includes one or more biometric sensors, each of the one or more biometric sensors gathering biological data from a wearer of the wearable device, the wearable device further having a computer processor for receiving the biological data from the one or more biometric sensors and generating biometric information based on the biological data and according one or more biometrical algorithms, the biometric information including validation information to validate the wearer as a source of the biological data gathered by each of the one or more sensors, the biometric information further including sleep information to provide a sleep profile of the wearer.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2017Date of Patent: August 21, 2018Assignee: SLEEP DATA SERVICES, LLCInventors: Dominic Munafo, David French, Bretton Hevener, William Hevener, Thinh Nguyen